1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

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1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football
Conference	Southern Conference
Record	4–5 (3–3 SoCon)
Head coach	Chuck Collins (1st season)
Captain	Manly Whisnant
Home stadium	Emerson Field
Seasons ← 1925 1927 →

1926 Southern Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 7 Alabama $	8	–	0	–	0	9	–	0	–	1
Tennessee	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
Vanderbilt	4	–	1	–	0	8	–	1	–	0
South Carolina	4	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Georgia	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Virginia	4	–	2	–	1	6	–	2	–	2
VPI	3	–	2	–	1	5	–	3	–	1
Washington and Lee	3	–	2	–	1	4	–	3	–	2
Georgia Tech	4	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
North Carolina	3	–	3	–	0	4	–	5	–	0
Auburn	3	–	3	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
LSU	3	–	3	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Ole Miss	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
Mississippi A&M	2	–	3	–	0	5	–	4	–	0
VMI	2	–	4	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Tulane	2	–	4	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
Maryland	1	–	3	–	1	5	–	4	–	1
Clemson	1	–	3	–	0	2	–	7	–	0
Florida	1	–	4	–	1	2	–	6	–	2
Kentucky	1	–	4	–	1	2	–	6	–	1
NC State	0	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Sewanee	0	–	5	–	0	2	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1926 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina (now known as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) during the 1926 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Tar Heels were led by head coach Chuck Collins in his first season and finished with a record of four wins and five losses (4–5 overall, 3–3 in the SoCon).^[1]

Schedule

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25		at Wake Forest*	Gore Athletic Field Wake Forest, NC (rivalry)	L 0–13	8,000^[2]	^[3]
October 2	3:30 p.m.^[4]	at Tennessee	Shields–Watkins Field Knoxville, TN	L 0–34		^[5]
October 9	3:00 p.m.^[6]	South Carolina	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 7–0		^[7]
October 16	3:00 p.m.^[8]	Duke*	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 6–0	5,000–7,500	^[9]^[10]
October 23	2:30 p.m.^[11]	at Maryland	Byrd Stadium College Park, MD	L 6–14	3,500^[12]	^[13]
October 30	2:30 p.m.^[14]	NC State	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 12–0		^[15]
November 6	3:00 p.m.^[16]	VMI	Emerson Field Chapel Hill, NC	W 28–0	7,000	^[17]
November 13		at Davidson*	Richardson Field Davidson, NC	L 0–10		^[18]
November 25		at Virginia	Lambeth Field Charlottesville, VA (rivalry)	L 0–3	11,500–15,000	^[19]^[20]
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

References

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^ "1926 North Carolina Tar Heels Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, September 28, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "Carolina suffers terrible defeat". The Charlotte News. September 26, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Knoxville Journal from Knoxville, Tennessee on October 1, 1926 · 13 (newspapers.com)".
^ "Tar Heels humiliated by Volunteers, 34–0". Asheville Citizen-Times. October 3, 1926. Retrieved August 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 09, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "Tar Heels upset dope by 7–0 victory". The News and Observer. October 10, 1926. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 22, no. 4 (Wednesday, October 13, 1926)".
^ "Carolina defeats Duke in thrilling game six to nothing". Winston-Salem Journal. October 17, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Duke Chronicle, vol. 22, no. 5 (Wednesday, October 20, 1926)".
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 23, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 26, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "Maryland upsets Dope by trimming Tar Heels". Greensboro Sunday Record. October 24, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 30, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "Tar Heels trim State". The News and Observer. October 31, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 06, 1926, Page 1, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".
^ "Carolina defeats V.M.I." The News and Observer. November 7, 1926. Retrieved December 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Dopesters given shock as Davidson beats N. Carolina". Daily Press. November 14, 1926. Retrieved September 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Virginia downs Tar Heel eleven by close margin". The Morning News Review. November 26, 1926. Retrieved December 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Cleveland Star. (Shelby, N.C.) 189?-1936, November 26, 1926, Image 1 · North Carolina Newspapers (digitalnc.org)".

v t e North Carolina Tar Heels football
Venues	Emerson Field (1916–1926) Kenan Memorial Stadium (1927–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Duke: Victory Bell NC State South Carolina Virginia: South's Oldest Rivalry Wake Forest
Culture & lore	First forward pass Rameses The Marching Tar Heels 2010 football scandal 2011 academic-athletic scandal
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